There is no worse feeling than arriving at your go-live date and realizing your hospital is inadequately prepared to use your EMR to care for patients, many administrators say. Here Kevin Burchill, director of healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners…

The American Academy of Family Physicians has expressed approval of the CMS final rule on meaningful use of electronic health records but points out various obstacles in implementing it, according to a news release by AAFP.

Healthcare providers urged HHS' Health IT Policy Committee's meaningful use work group to add more goals to better coordinate care in the meaningful use financial incentive plan, according to a report by Government Health IT.

The Office of the National Coordinator will be establishing governance rules for a nationwide health information network, according to a report by Government Health IT.

Christiana Care Health System, located in Wilmington, Del., will be launching two new initiatives in support of "meaningful use" standards for health information technology, according to a Christiana Care news release.

A health information technology center led by Purdue University is teaming up with iSALUS Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based software company to help achieve the center's goal of helping Indiana physicians implement meaning use of electronic health records, according to an iSALUS…

Aetna's Chief Medical Officer Lonny Reisman, MD, presented a new plan by the insurer that will provide financial incentives to physicians through its contracting process for using electronic health records implementation to achieve quality of care goals, according to a…

Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer introduced the Electronic Health Record Incentives for Multi-campus Hospitals Act, which ensures that payment incentives for EHRs would be available to all qualified hospitals that are part of larger multi-campus hospital systems sharing a…

When NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois installed its electronic medical record in 2003, "we thought the main advantage would be patient safety, such as eliminating errors from hand-writing prescriptions," says CIO Tom Smith. Now, after seven years of use, Mr.…

ActiveHealth and IBM have released a new support solution that will help medical professionals to access patient information, according to a news release by Aetna.